• Unraid OS version 6.9.0-beta25 available


    limetech

    6.9.0-beta25 vs. -beta24 Summary:

    • fixed emhttpd crash resulting from having NFS exported disk shares
    • fixed issue where specifying 1 MiB partition alignment was being ignored (see 1 MiB Partition Alignment below)
    • fixed spin-up/down issues
    • ssh improvements (see SSH Improvements below)
    • kernel updated from 5.7.7 to 5.7.8
    • added UI changes to support new docker image file handling - thank you @bonienl.  Refer also to additional information re: docker image folder, provided by @Squid under Docker below.
    • known issue: "Device/SMART Settings/SMART controller type" is ignored, will be fixed in next release

     

    Important: Beta code is not fully tested and not feature-complete.  We recommend running on test servers only!

     

    Multiple Pools

    This features permits you to define up to 35 named pools, of up to 30 storage devices/pool.  The current "cache pool" is now simply a pool named "cache".  Pools are created and managed via the Main page.

     

    Note: When you upgrade a server which has a cache pool defined, a backup of config/disk.cfg will be saved to config/disk.cfg.bak, and then cache device assignment settings are moved out of disk.cfg and into a new file, config/pools/cache.cfg.  If later you revert back to a pre-6.9 Unraid OS release you will lose your cache device assignments and you will have to manually re-assign devices to cache.  As long as you reassign the correct devices, data should remain intact.

     

    When you create a user share, or edit an existing user share, you can specify which pool should be associated with that share.  The assigned pool functions identically to current cache pool operation.

     

    Something to be aware of: when a directory listing is obtained for a share, the unRAID array disk volumes and all pools which contain that share are merged in this order:

      pool assigned to share

      disk1

      :

      disk28

      all the other pools in strverscmp() order.

     

    As with the current "cache pool", a single-device pool may be formatted with either xfs, btrfs, or reiserfs.  A multiple-device pool may only be formatted with btrfs.  A future release will include support for multiple "unRAID array" pools.  We are also considering zfs support.

     

    Something else to be aware of: Suppose you have a 2-device btrfs pool. This will be what btrfs calls "raid1" and what most people would understand to be "mirrored disks". Well this is mostly true in that the same data exists on both disks but not necessarily at the block-level.  Now suppose you create another pool, and what you do is unassign one of the devices from the existing 2-device btrfs pool and assign it to this new pool - now you have x2 single-device btrfs pools.  Upon array Start you might understandably assume there are now x2 pools with exactly the same data.  However this is not the case. Instead, when Unraid OS sees that a btrfs device has been removed from an existing multi-device pool, upon array Start it will do a 'wipefs' on that device so that upon mount it will not be included in the old pool.  This of course effectively deletes all the data on the moved device.

     

    1 MiB Partition Alignment

    We have added another partition layout where the start of partition 1 is aligned on 1 MiB boundary. That is, for devices which present 512-byte sectors, partition 1 will start in sector 2048; for devices with 4096-byte sectors, in sector 256.  This partition type is now used for all non-rotational storage (only).

     

    It is not clear what benefit 1 MiB alignment offers.  For some SSD devices, you won't see any difference; others, perhaps big performance difference.  LimeTech does not recommend re-partitioning an existing SSD device unless you have a compelling reason to do so (or your OCD just won't let it be).

     

    To re-partition a SSD it is necessary to first wipe out any existing partition structure on the device.  Of course this will erase all data on the device.  Probably the easiest way to accomplish this is, with array Stopped, identify the device to be erased and use the 'blkdiscard' command:

    blkdiscard /dev/xxx  # for exmaple /dev/sdb or /dev/nvme0n1 etc)

            WARNING: be sure you type the correct device identifier because all data will be lost on that device!

     

    Upon next array Start the device will appear Unformatted, and since there is now no partition structure, Unraid OS will create it.

     

    Language Translation

    A huge amount of work and effort has been implemented by @bonienl to provide multiple-language support in the Unraid OS Management Utility, aka, webGUI.  There are several language packs now available, and several more in the works.  Thanks to @Squid, language packs are installed via the Community Applications plugin - look for a new category entitled Language.

     

    Note: Community Applications must be up to date to install languages.  See also here.

     

    Each language pack exists in public Unraid organization github repos.  Interested users are encouraged to clone and issue Pull Requests to correct translations errors.  Language translations and PR merging is managed by @SpencerJ.

     

    Linux Kernel

    Upgraded to 5.7.

     

    These out-of-tree drivers are currently included:

    • QLogic QLGE 10Gb Ethernet Driver Support (from staging)
    • RealTek r8125: version 9.003.05 (included for newer r8125)
    • HighPoint rr272x_1x: version v1.10.6-19_12_05 (per user request)

    Note that as we update the Linux kernel, if an out-of-tree driver no longer builds, it will be omitted.

     

    These drivers are currently omitted:

    • Highpoint RocketRaid r750 (does not build)
    • Highpoint RocketRaid rr3740a (does not build)
    • Tehuti Networks tn40xx (does not build)

    If you require one of these drivers, please create a Bug Report and we'll spend some time looking for alternatives.  Better yet, pester the manufacturer of the controller and get them to update their drivers.

     

    Base Packages

    All updated to latest versions.  In addition, Linux PAM has been integrated.  This will permit us to implement 2-factor authentication in a future release.

     

    Docker

    Updated to version 19.03.11

     

    It's now possible to select different icons for multiple containers of the same type.  This change necessitates a re-download of the icons for all your installed docker applications.  A delay when initially loading either the dashboard or the docker tab while this happens is to be expected prior to the containers showing up.

     

    We also made some changes to add flexibility in assigning storage for the Docker engine.  First, 'rc.docker' will detect the filesystem type of /var/lib/docker.  We now support either btrfs or xfs and the docker storage driver is set appropriately.

     

    Next, 'mount_image' is modifed to support loopback formatted either with btrfs or xfs depending on the suffix of the loopback file name.  For example, the file name ends with ".img", as in "docker.img" then we use mkfs.btrfs.  If file name ends with "-xfs.img", as in "docker-xfs.img" then we use mkfs.xfs.


    We also added the ability to bind-mount a directory instead of using a loopback.  If file name does not end with ".img" then code assumes this is the name of directory (presumably on a share) which is bind-mounted onto /var/lib/docker.

     

    For example, if "/mnt/user/system/docker/docker" then we first create, if necessary the directory "/mnt/user/system/docker/docker".  If this path is on a user share we then "dereference" the path to get the disk path which is then bind-mounted onto /var/lib/docker.  For exmaple, if "/mnt/user/system/docker/docker" is on "disk1", then we would bind-mount "/mnt/disk1/system/docker/docker".  Caution: the share should be cache-only or cache-no so that 'mover' will not attempt to move the directory, but the script does not check this.

     

    Additional information from user @Squid:

     

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    Just a few comments on the ability to use a folder / share for docker

     

    If you're one of those users who continually has a problem with the docker image filling up, this is the solution, as the "image" will be able to expand (and shrink) to the size of the asigned share.  Just be aware though that this new feature is technically experimental.  (I have however been running this on an XFS formatted cache drive for a while now, and don't see any problems at all)

     

    I would recommend that you use a share that is dedicated to the docker files, and not a folder from another existing share (like system as show in the OP).  

     

    My reasoning for this is that:

    1. If you ever have a need to run the New Permissions tool against the share that you've placed the docker folder into, then that tool will cause the entire docker system to not run.  The folder will have to be removed (via the command line), and then recreated.

    2. All of the folders contained within the docker folder are not compatible with being exported over SMB, and you cannot gain access to them that way.  Using a separate share will also allow you to not export it without impacting the other shares' exporting.  (And there are no "user-modifiable" files in there anyways.  If you do need to modify a file within that folder, (ie: a config file for a container and that config isn't available within appdata), you should be doing it via going to the container's shell)

    You definitely want the share to be cache-only or cache-no (although cache-prefer should probably be ok).  Setting it to cache:yes will undoubtedly cause you problems if mover winds up relocating files to the array for you.

     

    I did have some "weirdness" with using a Unassigned Device as the drive for the docker folder.  This may however been a glitch in my system.

     

    Fix Common Problems (and the Docker Safe New Permissions Tool) will wind up getting updated to let you know of any problems that it detects with how you've configured the folder.

     

    Virtualization

    libvirt updated to version 6.4.0

    qemu updated to version 5.0.0

     

    In addition, integrated changes to System Devices page by user @Skitals with modifications by user @ljm42.  You can now select PCI devices to isolate from Linux upon boot simply by checking some boxes.  This makes it easier to reserve those devices for assignment to VM's.

     

    Note: If you had the VFIO-PCI Config plugin installed, you should remove it as that functionality is now built-in to Unraid OS 6.9.  Refer also @ljm42's excellent guide.

     

    In a future release we will include the NVIDIA and AMD GPU drivers natively into Unraid OS.  The primary use case is to facilitate accelerated transcoding in docker containers.  For this we require Linux to detect and auto-install the appropriate driver.  However, in order to reliably pass through an NVIDIA or AMD GPU to a VM, it's necessary to prevent Linux from auto-installing a GPU driver for those devices upon boot, which can be easily done now through System Devices page.  Users passing GPU's to VM's are encouraged to set this up now.

     

    "unexpected GSO errors"

    If your system log is being flooded with errors such as:

    Jun 20 09:09:21 Tower kernel: tun: unexpected GSO type: 0x0, gso_size 31, hdr_len 66

    You need to edit each VM and change the model type for the Ethernet bridge from "virtio" to "virtio-net".  In most cases this can be accomplished simply by clicking Update in "Form View" on the VM Edit page.  For other network configs it may be necessary to directly edit the xml.  Example:

    <interface type='bridge'>
          <mac address='xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx'/>
          <source bridge='br0'/>
          <model type='virtio-net'/>
          <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/>
    </interface>

     

    SSH Improvements

    There are changes in /etc/ssh/sshd_conf to improve security (thanks to @Mihai and @ljm42 for suggestions):

    • only root user is permitted to login via ssh (remember: no traditional users in Unraid OS - just 'root')
    • non-null password is now required
    • non-root tunneling is disabled

     

    In addition, upon upgrade we ensure the 'config/ssh/root' directory exists on the USB flash boot device; and, we have set up a symlink: /root/.ssh to this directory.  This means any files you might put into /root/.ssh will be persistent across reboots.

     

    Note: if you examine the sshd startup script (/etc/rc.d/rc.sshd), upon boot all files from the 'config/ssh' directory are copied to /etc/ssh (but not subdirs).  The purpose is to restore the host ssh keys; however, this mechanism can be used to define custom ssh_conf and sshd_conf files (not recommended).

     

    Other

    • AFP support has been removed.
    • Numerous other Unraid OS and webGUI bug fixes and improvements.

     


    Version 6.9.0-beta25 2020-07-12

    Linux kernel:

    • version 5.7.8

    Management:

    • fix emhttpd crash resulting from exporting NFS disk share(s)
    • fix non-rotational device partitions were not actually being 1MiB aligned
    • dhcpcd: ipv6: use slaac hwaddr instead of slaac private
    • docker: correct storage-driver assignemnt logic
    • ssh: allow only root user, require passwords, disable non-root tunneling
    • ssh: add /root/.ssh symlink to /boot/config/ssh/root directory
    • syslog: configure to also listen on localhost udp port 514
    • webgui: Added btrfs info for all pools in diagnostics
    • webgui: Docker: allow BTRFS or XFS vdisk, or folder location
    • webgui: Multi-language: Fixed regression error: missing indicator for required fields
    • webgui: Dashboard: fix stats of missing interface
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    3 minutes ago, TexasUnraid said:

    After some research I am pretty sure it is because I am using an encrypted cache and the luks mount has to be mounted with the discard option to enable trim support.

    I don't use encryption but pretty sure it already does that.

     

    Also mkfs already does a full device trim, with both btrfs and xfs.

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    According to my research online luks mounts drives without the discard option by default. You have to specifically enable the discard option to allow trim commands.

     

    mkfs, as in when the drives were reformatted? (remember, still new to linux and learning the language). Thats what I thought as well but I noticed the performance is really poor since reformatting. They are acting like an SSD that needs to be trimmed, reads are fine but writes are all over the place and just generally slow at 20-40mb/s in many cases.

     

    It was always around 180mb's per drive during testing previously (old laptop drives, 5x of them makes for a fast cache though).

     

    Figured I would trim the drives as a first step to troubleshooting.

     

    All I know for sure is that fstrim will not trim the drives right now when connected to the onboard sata and just says "drive does not support discard"

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    6 minutes ago, TexasUnraid said:

    According to my research online luks mounts drives without the discard option by default. You have to specifically enable the discard option to allow trim commands.

    IIRC it's not done at mount time, it's done at decryption time, and Unraid already does that, look for the luksopen command in the syslog, it should include "--allow-discards"

     

     

     

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    9 minutes ago, johnnie.black said:

    IIRC it's not done at mount time, it's done at decryption time, and Unraid already does that, look for the luksopen command in the syslog, it should include "--allow-discards"

     

     

     

    I checked the syslog and you are correct. Hmm, strange, now I don't know what the issue is.

     

    Although while looking at the log, I noticed that each drive is mounted as a /dev/dm-X, am I supposed to use that mount point for trimming?

     

    The fstrim -a or /dev/sdX does not work that is for sure.

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    16 minutes ago, TexasUnraid said:

    The fstrim -a or /dev/sdX does not work that is for sure.

    fstrim runs on a mounted filesystem, not on the device, e.g. use

     

    fstrim -v /mnt/cache

     

     

    Edit to add: if you want to do a full trim on a device you can use:

     

    blkdiscard /dev/sdX

     

    Note that it will completely wiped.

     

     

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    Yeah, I tried that on /mnt/cache and it didn't work there either.

     

    Is it because not all of the drives are connected to the onboard sata? I only have 4 onboad ports (2 of which are sata 2) but 5 cache drives. Is there no command to trim an individual drive when part of a pool?

     

    Although if you are right and it was trimmed during the reformat, I can't explain the performance. I have been using these drives on 6.8 for the last few weeks quite heavily and performance never degraded. So really odd that the performance is so much worse all of the sudden now.

     

    I am going to try trimming another drive in a separate pool tomorrow when I have some time.

     

    In other news, I tested the new docker writes and with a BTRFS I was getting about 50% of the writes I was getting with space_cache=v2 on 6.8.

     

    Although that is still about 3x the writes of an XFS formatted drive, I am testing the XFS again on 6.9 to confirm, will let it run overnight.

     

    Still a whole lot better then 6.8 and low enough I would consider putting everything on the cache.

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    Some controllers and firmware don't support trim properly.

    One of my 9207-8is doesn't for example, because it's on P20 firmware. Apparently anything after P16 broke it. There was a thread on here a month or so ago about it.

    Also my board has an ASMedia controller for 2 of its ports, and they don't do trim either.

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    yeah, I am aware of that, my HBA won't do it either. The onboard has worked in the past though and it is an intel controller. The only issue is that I only have 4 ports but 5 drives in the pool. I assumed I could trim each drive individually but the only thing I can figure is they all have to be on the onboard sata.

     

    Although all of this is really kinda pointless as they were working fine before the beta upgrade and had WAY more use then since the re-format.

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    9 hours ago, TexasUnraid said:

    Is it because not all of the drives are connected to the onboard sata?

    Most likely, but this is getting OT, you can start a general support thread and please include diags.

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    I just wanted to say that I am LOVING the new multiple cache pools. It opens up so much flexibility, I have already figured out several use cases and it has made several data migrations much easier and I know I am just scratching the surface.

     

    Very good work!

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    I had pfSense running in a VM everything was working, restarted my server and then pfsense stopped loading all the way.. I wiped the VM and started over (I have a backup), couldn't get it to see a LAN port, would see the WAN but never got an IP Address...I'm playing around with it again, after setup it still only see's 1 port/em0 for the WAN..it doesn't see the other ports I've passed through..  any ideas? I've checked my IOMMU groups, they're still in the groups they were, 2 in group 16 and 2 in group 17.  I've played with the VFIO Config, unchecked, rechecked the network card in System Devices.. I can check them in the VM Template.. but it will not see the ports now "No interfaces found".    I'm on Unraid 6.9 Beta25.  I am able to sometimes get the VM to see 1 port, but it will not see others.. I've tried passing 2-4 ports, same results. ***this was working prior in 6.8.3 and also in 6.9 update 22.

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    Was wondering, has there been any improvement with using Safari and unRAID web interface? Docker section has always been locking up randomly for me and requires to reload the page.

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    1 hour ago, ziggie216 said:

    Was wondering, has there been any improvement with using Safari and unRAID web interface? Docker section has always been locking up randomly for me and requires to reload the page.

    Does it always work fine with another browser?

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    Regarding using docker in a folder image, is this active in the GUI?  I tried just wiping out the existing /mnt/INTEL1TB/docker/dockerimage/docker.img and replacing with /mnt/INTEL1TB/docker/dockerimage/ and also with /mnt/INTEL1TB/docker/dockerimage but neither worked.  It still thinks it's an image, wants an image size to be set etc.

     

    I also tried moving it to /mnt/user something - that didn't work either.  I read up that that maybe you have to use a share, not sure how since it still in the GUI wants me to put in an image size.

     

    I assume there's something obvious I'm missing?

     

    Everything else is working great. :)

     

    Thanks.

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    The path has to end in a slash on this version  (And has to be a non-existing directory for the initial build)

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    On 7/29/2020 at 11:06 PM, -Daedalus said:

    Also my board has an ASMedia controller for 2 of its ports, and they don't do trim either.

    Thats not true... my SSD370 is connected to an ASMedia-Port and get trimed.

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    1 hour ago, Zonediver said:

    Thats not true... my SSD370 is connected to an ASMedia-Port and get trimed.

    Noted. I'll have to double-check. I posted that while doing a lot of disk shuffling. I was pretty sure I only had the one SSD on that controller, but may have been wrong.

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    7 hours ago, -Daedalus said:

    I was pretty sure I only had the one SSD on that controller, but may have been wrong.

    There are two revisions for the Asmedia 1602 controller, and IIRC trim works on rev 02, it doesn't on rev 01:

    03:00.0 SATA controller [0106]: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller [1b21:0612] (rev 02)

     

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    5 hours ago, johnnie.black said:

    There are two revisions for the Asmedia 1602 controller, and IIRC trim works on rev 02, it doesn't on rev 01:

    
    03:00.0 SATA controller [0106]: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller [1b21:0612] (rev 02)

     

    Hehe - wrong again 😉

    I use an old ASRock Z77 Extreme4 from 2012 and see this:

     

    04:00.0 SATA controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller (rev 01)

     

    Aug  6 23:40:34 Horus root: /mnt/disks/SSD370S: 208.2 GiB (223556554752 bytes) trimmed on /dev/sdg1

     

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    13 minutes ago, Zonediver said:

    I use an old ASRock Z77 Extreme4 from 2012 and see this:

    Then it's not the revision, but trim doesn't work on some some Asmedia 1062 controllers, example.

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    In my recent issues with trim, I ended up just giving up as it made no sense, might be similar with you.

     

    I tried plugging in some SSD's to the onboard intel controller and made a separate XFS cache pool for it. It trimmed fine.

     

    I then tried 2 drives in a pool, both trimmed fine.

     

    I then move one of the drives from the pool to the HBA, the onboard trimmed fine but the HBA did not (expected).

     

    I then tried the same thing with an encrypted pool, same as above, onboard trimmed, hba did not.

     

    Finally I moved the onboard connected drive into my main cache pool with 5 other devices, it will no longer trim. I have tried connecting other devices from the pool to the onboard controller, none of them will trim though.

     

    I gave up and played musical drives with some other systems so now I think all the drives I am using have pretty good garbage collection and hopefully will not need to be trimmed.

     

    Edit, in other news, I figured out how to re-create the bug where I could not change the number of drives in the pool from earlier. I had added a drive to the pool, causing 1 of the drives to be a "blue dot", it would not let me change the number of slots until I removed all the blue drives. In the earlier case, the drive was the 1st drive in the pool so I thought I had to remove all of them to make it work.

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    On 8/4/2020 at 6:08 PM, ziggie216 said:

    Was wondering, has there been any improvement with using Safari and unRAID web interface? Docker section has always been locking up randomly for me and requires to reload the page.

    Docker page doesn't work at all on iPad and hasn't for quite a while! Keep hoping it'll be fixed with each new update? It just locks-up and won't scroll.

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